Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...
Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...
Every 40 seconds of nighttime for the next 10 years, a camera the size of a small car will capture strikingly detailed images of the southern sky, stitching together a time-lapse panorama of ...
On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...
In a blow to Donald Trump’s agenda, America’s Supreme Court blocked an executive order that would have denied birthright ...
Second only to black holes, neutron stars—incredibly dense star remnants—are the densest objects in the universe. When ...
A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen "bow-and-arrow" structure that could offer rare insight into how galaxies are ...